1904814 - Best practices for Upgrade / migration to BI 4.x (UMT)

This article applies to scenarios involving migration to SAP Business Intelligence Platform 4.0, 4.1, or 4.2 from earlier versions of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise, XI R2 or 3.1.  Here are a few assumptions in the following document -

• Upgrade Management Tool is referred to as UMT
• Migration is synonymous to upgrading the BI users and content to the current BI 4.x version
• Source or origin server is any legacy XI R2 or XI 3.1 environment, which the BI content is being migrated FROM.
• Target or destination server is the BI 4.x environment, which the BI content is being migrated TO.

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• SAP Business Intelligence Platform 4.x (4.1, 4.2)
• SAP Crystal Server 2016, 2020
• Migrating from:
• SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2
• SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1
• SAP Crystal server 2013 or lower

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